A surpirse only to self-centered twits

[Rollo]

Have you watched or listened to Public Television or NPR? Can you name me one news/politics show that is even middle of the road let alone Right wing?

Morning Edition and All Things Considered are both what the rest of the world would consider to be centrist. They even have a domestic audience of about 13 million people, which puts them at no.2 and 3 behind The Rush Limbaugh Show for audience numbers.

I have Discovery, History Channel, History International, Science, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Green, Current and Animal Planet and they are all for profit and seem to have no problem cranking out Documentaries.

The National Geographic Society is a non-profit organisation. Grant that Discovery and AETN are for profit, but collectively they all turn out less than the BBC, DW and the ABC do.

[billiaml]

CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC are all commercial entities; as such their prime motivator is the need to turn a profit for their private shareholders. That in itself is a rightist concept.

Public Broadcasting generally and Public Radio in particular isn't driven by the need to turn profits. As such, Public Broadcasters can afford to be not only far more adventurous in their content, but because they also need to be seen as independent they tend to play far less in the political-party slanging match and actually report more objectively on the issues themselves.
Also, on the whole Public Broadcasters produce far more documentaries and educational programming than commercial stations do. It also generally is of a higher quality. So much so, that as far as radio goes, NPR is really the only American radio network that exports content.



NPR itself actually made $18.9 million. Oops.

The Dept of Defence, Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are the three biggest pulls on the US Budget. All of which could be cut drastically. The US has been fighting pointless wars for the last decade.
The other big option is to increase taxes, and to simplify the existing tax regime. Having 51 different sets of tax code doesn’t help much.

I obviously need more info re: their sources & uses of funds, then. Since they seem to be taking in more money than they're spending, if I were them, I'm not sure how heartbroken I'd be about the loss of Federal funding -- and the red tape that usually accompanies it.

As far as our simplifying our tax code is concerned, I don't see that happening. Too many lawyers in Congress for that to happen.

[BDunnell]

Balance by it's definition must be the the centre of 2 extreems.

Those of us — me, mainly — who, at least in part, decide whether or not a comment is worth taking into consideration by reference to spelling and grammar, and who consider those who are unable to achieve a decent standard in either even in a brief post hard to take seriously, will be forgiven for thinking that your sentiments would be expressed more effectively without the unnecessary inverted comma and the mis-spelled 'extremes'.

[BDunnell]

Have you watched or listened to Public Television or NPR? Can you name me one news/politics show that is even middle of the road let alone Right wing?

Yes, I have, and regularly. Much of their output is spectacularly worthy — those of us who are inveterate (look it up) enthusiasts of the BBC might even say dull — and in no way worthy of being described as biased or even interesting.

[BDunnell]

CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC all seem to be able to spread the gospel of the left and not need to waste my Tax Dollars.....So why do we need NPR?

Choice?

[BDunnell]

PS- If the Republicans vote to de-fund, NPR, it gives truth to claims too many Repulicans are among the self-centered twits.
They are voting right now, I think.

One of the few things you have ever posted I have agreed wholeheartedly with.

[glauistean]

Which of the shows on the channels you attribute as being left and are damaging(sic) to your mind do you know of that are on the channels you list?

Do you go to FOX for your "Fair and Balanced" point of view? Is it true they actually sued someone for using the term?

Fox news is by the way the channel most watched by the least educated. Something like playing to the lowest denominator. Do you watch FOX, ahem, News?

As was stated in my home country, the lack of respect shown to your President Obama by Bill O'Reilly who apparently interrupted the President constantly and showed absolute disrespect

to the office President Obama holds. Is it because he is black or is it because he is a Democrat that O'Reilly acted as reported. I will reserve my opinion until I actually view the interview.

[anthonyvop]

Morning Edition and All Things Considered are both what the rest of the world would consider to be centrist.

Morning Edition and All things considered are extreme left-wing...That is irrefutable. NPR is a U.S. radio network partially funded by the U.S. government. so what euro-weenies think is immaterial.

The National Geographic Society is a non-profit organisation. Grant that Discovery and AETN are for profit, but collectively they all turn out less than the BBC, DW and the ABC do.

We are discussing PBS and NPR. Both funded by the U.S. Government.

Nat Geo Channel is a for-profit Joint Venture with Fox Networks.....

The fact is that despite what you think the Vast Majority of documentaries in the U.S.A are created and produced networks that are For Profit.

BTW BBC America(The US BBC Channel) sell advertising space.

[anthonyvop]

Choice?

What Choice? NPR and PBS are just as left wing as the others. If you truly wanted choice provided by the government then you would welcome a Libertarian NPR/PBS.

The Fact is there is no major media network in the USA that could be considered right-wing. Fox is centrist with a few right wing commentators(Hannity and Cavuto) and many populist (O'Reily, VanSustern and Beck) and even a Left winger(Shepard Smith)

The only Network that could be considered Right-Wing/Conservative would be CNBC but that is a business network.

[Rollo]

What Choice? NPR and PBS are just as left wing as the others. If you truly wanted choice provided by the government then you would welcome a Libertarian NPR/PBS.

Libertarianism eh? Please define this for us. Are you talking about Libertarianism in a minarchist or anarchist sense. The two instances are very different and appear quite a way apart on the Political Compass.